Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-05-02

howl of your damnation. ''God shall
wound the hairy scalp OF him that goeth
on in his trespasses-"
THE CLOCK STRIKES MIDNIGHT.
A fair form bends over romance. The
eyes flash fire. The breath is quick and
irregular. Occasionally the color dashes
to the cheek, and then dies out. The
hands tremble as though guardian spirit
were trying to shake the deadly book out
of the grasp. Hot tears fall. She laughs
with shrill voice that drops dead ut its
own sound. The sweat on her brow Is the
spray dashed up from the river Of death.
The clock strikes four" and the rosy
dawn soon after begins TO look through the
lattice upon the pale form that looks like
detained spectre OF the night Soon in q
madhonse she will mistake her ringlets for
curling serpents, and thrust her white
hand through the bars Of the prison, and
smite her head, rubbing it back as though
to push the scalp from the skull, Shrek
ing: my brain! my brain" o, stand
OFF from that! Why will you 90 sounding
your way amid the reefs and warning
buoys, when there is such o vast ocean in
which you may voyage, all sail set?
There is one other thing shall say this
morning before i Leave you, whether You
want to hear it'or not. That Is, that /
consider
THE LAsCIvIoUs PICTORIAL LITERATURE
of the day rs most tremendous for ruin.
There is no one who can like good pictures
better than | do. The quickest and most
condensed way of impressing the public
mind is by picture. What the painter
does by his brush for few favorites, the
engraver does by his knife for the million.
What the author accomplishes by fifty
pages, the artist does by fash. The
best part of painting that costs ten thou
sand dollars, you may buy for ten cents.
Fine paintings belong to the aristocraey Of
art. Engravings belong TO the democracy
of art. You do we'll to gather good pic
lures in your homes. Spread them before
your children, after the tea hour is past,
and the evening circle is gathered. Throw
them on the invalid's couch. Strew them
through the rail-train to cheer the traveller
on his Journey. Tack them on the wall OF
the nursery. Gather them in albums and
portfolios Good speed the good pictures
on their way with ministries of knowledge
and mercy!
But what shall say Of the
PROSTITUTION or THIS ART
to purposes of iniquity2 These death
warrants of the soul are at every street
corner. They smite the vision Of the
young man with pollution. Many young
man buying copy has bought his eternal
discontinue. There may be enough poison
in one bad picture 10 poison one soul, and
that soul may poison ten, and ten fifty,
aud the fifty hundreds, and the hundreds
thousands, until nothing but the measur'
ing line of eternity can tell the height,
depth, and ghastliness, and horror Of the
great undoing. The work Of death thai
the wicked author does in a whole book
the bad engraver may do on half side oI
pictorial Under the guise Of pure mirth
the young man buys one OF these sheets
He unrolls il before his comrades amid
roars of laughter, but long after the paper
is gone the result may perhaps he seen In
the
BLASTED lhAGlNAIloNS
of those who saw it. The queen Of deatl
holds banquet every night, and thes'
periodicals are the printed invitations Il
her guests Alas that the fair brow o
American art should be blotched with thii
plague spot, and that philanthropists
botheriug themselves about smaller evils
4 should lift up no united aud vehement
voice against this great calamity!
YOUNG MAN!
\ buy not this ,loral strychniBe f8F- ,yQal
soul Pick not up this nest Of eoiled nd
ders for your pocket ratronize no new,
stand that keeps them Have your room
bright with good engrayiugs (; but fol
these outrageous pictorals have not ont
wall, not one bureau, not one pocket
man is no better than the picture he love
to look at. II your eyes are not pure
your heart cannot be. Al a news stand
one can guess the character Of o man by
the kind Of pictorial books he purchases
When the devil fails TO get man 10 rcaL
a bad book, he sometimes succeeds IN get
ting him TO look at bad picture. Whel
Satan goes a-ishing he does not car,
whether il IL long line or a short line, i
he only draws his victim in. Beware o
lascivious pictorials, young man, in th,
name of Almighty God charge you.
II have this morning successfully laid
down any principles by which you may
Judge in regard to books and newspapers
then have done something which shall
not he ashamed on the day which shal
try every mans work, of what sort IL Is
CHERISH GOOD BOOKS AND NEWSPAPERS
Beware Of the bad ones. One column maj
save your soul; one paragraph may ruiz
IT, benjamin Franklin said that the read
ing Of Cotton Mather's Esay on Doin,
Good moulded his entire life. The assas
sin OF Lord Russell declared that he wa
led into crime by reading one vivid no
nance. The consecrated John Angel
James, than whom England never pro
duced a better man, declared ia his old
days that be had never yet got over thu
evil effects Of having for fifteen MINUTES
once read a bad book. But | need not gt
20 far of. could come near home anf
tell you OF something that occurred iD ms
college days. | could tell you Of con
rade who was great-hearte.l, noble and
generous. lie was studying for an honor
able profession, but he had an infidel boob
in his trunk, and he said TO me one day
Dewitt, wonld you like 70 read it?'
said: ''Yes, would" took the book
and read IL only for few minutes. | wa
really startled with what j saw there, and
handed the book back 10 him and ssid
lyon had better destroy that book" No
he kept IT, He read IL. He Te-resd H.
After awhile he
GAVE Up RELIGION AZ a MYTH.
He gave mp God as q nonenity. He gave
up the Bible as a fable. He gave up thu
Church Of Christ ~ a ueless institution.
He gave up good morals as being nnneoes
sarily stringent have heard OF him but
twice in many years The time before tb,
last heard Of him, be was q confirmed
inebriate. The last heard Of him, be
was coming out Of an insane asylum In
body, mind, and soul an awful wreck.
believe that one iDfdel book killed him
for two worlds.
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